Written answers
Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Department of Education and Skills
School Attendance Data
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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369. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 186 of 28 November 2017, the number of post-primary students aged 12 to 18 years of age in each of the 314 school planning areas used by the geographical information system. [54917/17]
Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is not available broken down by school planning area.
The overall number of 12 to 18 year old post primary students is available in the following table, broken down by the local authority area of the school they attend. The information given is from the 2016/2017 academic year, which is the latest year for which data is available.
Age | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Local Authority | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Total |
| Carlow County Council | 331 | 996 | 966 | 933 | 910 | 825 | 481 | 5,442 |
| Cavan County Council | 322 | 948 | 921 | 957 | 893 | 823 | 320 | 5,184 |
| Clare County Council | 443 | 1,476 | 1,549 | 1,538 | 1,417 | 1,330 | 429 | 8,182 |
| Cork City Council | 671 | 1,879 | 1,908 | 1,984 | 1,878 | 1,700 | 1,129 | 11,149 |
| Cork County Council | 1,395 | 5,054 | 5,283 | 5,080 | 4,930 | 4,588 | 2,846 | 29,176 |
| Donegal County Council | 851 | 2,346 | 2,294 | 2,368 | 2,233 | 2,009 | 815 | 12,916 |
| Dublin City Council | 2,410 | 5,039 | 5,295 | 5,176 | 4,992 | 4,706 | 2,150 | 29,768 |
| Dun Laoghaire Rathdown | 1,004 | 2,558 | 2,465 | 2,620 | 2,393 | 2,339 | 1,299 | 14,678 |
| Fingal County Council | 1,562 | 4,142 | 4,084 | 3,940 | 3,514 | 3,002 | 1,261 | 21,505 |
| Galway City Council | 330 | 961 | 979 | 895 | 900 | 683 | 258 | 5,006 |
| Galway County Council | 695 | 2,554 | 2,535 | 2,534 | 2,372 | 2,071 | 963 | 13,724 |
| Kerry County Council | 539 | 1,869 | 1,994 | 1,984 | 1,866 | 1,646 | 589 | 10,487 |
| Kildare County Council | 1,250 | 3,377 | 3,436 | 3,238 | 3,109 | 2,651 | 1,262 | 18,323 |
| Kilkenny County Council | 511 | 1,283 | 1,323 | 1,362 | 1,264 | 1,097 | 640 | 7,480 |
| Laois County Council | 285 | 953 | 868 | 810 | 788 | 660 | 301 | 4,665 |
| Leitrim County Council | 188 | 477 | 462 | 451 | 412 | 396 | 150 | 2,536 |
| Limerick City Council | 478 | 1,182 | 1,177 | 1,171 | 1,155 | 1,062 | 528 | 6,753 |
| Limerick County Council | 491 | 1,510 | 1,516 | 1,491 | 1,409 | 1,289 | 660 | 8,366 |
| Longford County Council | 193 | 680 | 706 | 738 | 675 | 562 | 231 | 3,785 |
| Louth County Council | 993 | 2,126 | 2,126 | 2,215 | 2,025 | 1,547 | 505 | 11,537 |
| Mayo County Council | 488 | 1,710 | 1,775 | 1,769 | 1,749 | 1,611 | 965 | 10,067 |
| Meath County Council | 903 | 2,702 | 2,709 | 2,670 | 2,495 | 2,018 | 737 | 14,234 |
| Monaghan County Council | 406 | 876 | 901 | 926 | 915 | 906 | 404 | 5,334 |
| Offaly County Council | 492 | 1,314 | 1,350 | 1,276 | 1,187 | 1,011 | 411 | 7,041 |
| Roscommon County Council | 193 | 581 | 589 | 619 | 545 | 498 | 213 | 3,238 |
| Sligo County Council | 331 | 849 | 867 | 870 | 795 | 724 | 330 | 4,766 |
| South Dublin County Council | 1,843 | 3,944 | 3,949 | 3,871 | 3,668 | 2,895 | 1,331 | 21,501 |
| Tipperary (NR) County Council | 373 | 1,157 | 1,135 | 1,176 | 1,287 | 1,067 | 590 | 6,785 |
| Tipperary (SR) County Council | 389 | 1,129 | 1,088 | 1,174 | 1,124 | 1,057 | 471 | 6,432 |
| Waterford City Council | 381 | 803 | 823 | 868 | 763 | 692 | 279 | 4,609 |
| Waterford County Council | 293 | 746 | 798 | 745 | 737 | 657 | 299 | 4,275 |
| Westmeath County Council | 509 | 1,492 | 1,549 | 1,589 | 1,479 | 1,330 | 532 | 8,480 |
| Wexford County Council | 704 | 2,259 | 2,271 | 2,168 | 1,988 | 1,870 | 905 | 12,165 |
| Wicklow County Council | 725 | 1,976 | 1,978 | 2,003 | 1,787 | 1,645 | 875 | 10,989 |
| Total | 22,972 | 62,948 | 63,669 | 63,209 | 59,654 | 52,967 | 25,159 | 350,578 |
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